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Dr. Gaurav Tiwari has completed his PhD in rock mechanics from Indian Institute of Science, masters in geotechnical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee and bachelor’s in civil engineering Govt Eng. College, Jodhpur. His research area is related to experimental and numerical rock mechanics, and practical application of developed methods for field scale rock structures like slopes, tunnels and foundation. He has published articles in rock mechanics journals of international repute and global conferences. He has been awarded with ISSMGE travel grant and IGS best PhD thesis in the area of geotechnical engineering. Currently his research group has 4 PhD students and 5 master’s students working in the area of experimental and numerical rock mechanics.
Our research focuses are related to experimental and numerical rock mechanics. In particular we are investigating the behaviour of jointed rocks and rock discontinuities under high loading rates through SHPB and dynamic direct shear test set-up. In the numerical area, our focus is to develop probabilistic and reliability tools for the stability analysis of rock slopes and tunnels. Major focus is to counter the issue of insufficiency of data and quantification of different uncertainties in the reliability analysis of large scale rock structures.
Dr Vo moved from Northumbria University (UK) to join La Trobe University in December 2019 as an Associate Professor in Structural Engineering. At Northumbria University, he was a Senior Lecturer in Civil Engineering and later led this program as Program Leader (2013-2019). Prior to that, he worked as a Lecturer at Airbus’ Advanced Composite Training and Development Centre and Wrexham Glyndwr University (2011–2013) and Research Associate at University of Liverpool (2010 –2011). His research interests have been devoted towards the development of shear deformation theories to investigate structural responses of composite structures (laminate, functionally graded material and micro/nano structures) and machine learning for structural engineering applications. He has published more than 120 research papers in the prestigious journals and international conferences.
Behaviours of micro/nano composite structures and applications of machine learning for structural engineering
Dr Vipul Patel has completed his PhD degree from Victoria University in 2013. He was a research fellow at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO). He worked at the University of New South Wales as a Research Associate. He joined La Trobe University in 2016. He is a Senior Lecturer at La Trobe Unviersity in Civil Engineering
Dr Vipul Patel research interests include the analysis and design of steel-concrete composite structures.
Malka is a Senior Lecturer in Cybersecurity (Teaching Research) at the Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, since Dec 2021. From 2007-2021 Malka worked as a Researcher at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Melbourne. She completed her PhD at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Melbourne, in 2007. Malka received the CAS President’s International Fellowship from Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (2017, 2018), Incoming Leaders Fellowship from Australia India Institute (2016), Next Step Initiative Fellowship (2015), Australia- China Young Scientist Fellowship (2014), Dyason Fellowship to undertake research at Department of Epidemiology, University of California (UCLA), Los Angeles, USA (2013), Early Career Researcher (ECR) Award (2013) from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Two papers she co-authored with her PhD students at The University of Melbourne received the Best Paper Award (2012) and Best Student Paper Award (2011). Malka received the Vice- Chancellor’s Engagement Award (2010) and the Vice-Chancellor’s Knowledge Transfer Award (2008) for her research at The University of Melbourne. She was also awarded the Solander Fellowship (2007 and 2008) for research collaboration with the Departments of Neurosurgery and Radiation Physics, Lund University, Sweden.
Malka is passionate about research and teaching university students (Emerging Technologies, Internet of Things (IoT), Edge Computing, Blockchain, Digital Twin, Cybersecurity, Machine Learning Solutions and Bioelectromagnetics). Her interdisciplinary research interests include network modelling, optimisation, probabilistic modelling, algorithm design, machine learning, federated learning, and data analysis.
Abhishek K. Gupta received his B.Tech.- M.Tech. dual degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur in 2010 and PhD degree in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin in 2016. He is currently working as an assistant professor in the department of Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He was recipient of young faculty fellowship (2022) by IIT Kanpur and GE-FS Leadership award (2009) by General Electric (GE) Foundation and Institute of International Education. He is author of the books An introduction to stochastic geometry (Morgan-Claypool, 2022), Numerical Methods using MATLAB (Apress, 2014) and MATLAB by Examples (Finch, 2010). Previously he was working as Sr. Standards Engineer at Samsung Research America in Dallas, TX. In past, he has worked in Applied
My work focuses on establishing the theoretical limits on the system level performance of modern communication systems which play a crucial role in the design and optimization of these networks. My research interests include Wireless communication, Stochastic geometry, Analysis and modeling of cellular systems, mmWave and 5G networks, Molecular communications, 6G and beyond, Vehicular networks, Quantum communication, THz communication, spectrum sharing and cognitive radio.
Dr. Sarvesh Kumar Mishra is working as an Assistant Professor at IIT Kanpur. He worked as a Postdoc Fellow at BCAM/UPV-EHU, Spain in the Computational Mathematics and Advanced Manufacturing research groups. Dr. Mishra has obtained his Ph.D. and Master’s degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi (2020) and the Indian Institute of Technology- BHU (2014), respectively. His research interests span Advanced manufacturing, Laser-based manufacturing, and Surface engineering. His research in the development of laser-structured cutting tools, laser powder bed fusion of Inconel alloys, and material characterization has been published in high- quality peer-reviewed journals (Wear, Int. J Mech Sciences, Surf Coat Tech, etc.). He serves as a reviewer of the Journal of Manufacturing Processes (Elsevier) and has been a scientific committee member of the International Conference and Exhibition (EUSPEN, 2021-DTU Copenhagen). He has been awarded by EUSPEN-UK (2020), IIT Delhi-India (2019), and TACT-Taiwan (2019) with Heidenhain scholarship, research excellence awards, and excellence in oral presentation award, respectively.
for mobility (aerospace and automobile). With research collaboration between IITK and Australian universities, I look forward to work on E-mobility solutions, especially for metallic component manufacturing using additive and subtractive manufacturing methods. The aim is to build and lead a strong team of researchers who can accelerate E-mobility manufacturing research and provide a thrust to national manufacturing missions. With expertise in laser-based manufacturing, machining science, and surface engineering, I’ll participate and collaborate to conduct research and train the students for next-generation manufacturing research.
PhD from the University of Newcastle, Australia in 2008 with the award ‘Research Higher Degree Best PhD Thesis Award’. Her main research fields are Service Marketing and General Marketing with current evolving interest on customer engagement, service workers, innovation, smart services and service disruption. She was attached to The Ohio State University, USA from March to December 2014 as a Visiting Scholar. Her work has been published in leading international journals. She has also edited books and published several book chapters. She has won several awards for paper presented in the international conferences. In her experience as an academic upon completion of my PhD at an Australian University, Additionally, she also formed good teaching and research collaboration with several universities and scholars at international level. She is also
My main research fields are Service Innovation and Service Improvisation with current evolving interest on community engagement, user experience, human creativity, access-based services and service disruption. I hugely support the agenda of creating service systems and processes that result in social impacts via human upliftment and human wellbeing. My current research working papers are focusing on how the actors in the ecosystem (e.g. citizens, customers, service providers, employees and investors) in transition will benefit from access to smart based service design strategies, tools and techniques. Currently I am conducting a research on acceptance of online participatory tools and smart home services in smart cities.
Junsong Bian received his Ph.D. in Management Science from City University of Hong Kong in 2013. He is an Associate Professor in La Trobe Business School at La Trobe University. Prior to his current position, Dr. Junsong Bian worked at Macquarie University and RMIT University in Australia, as well as Wilfrid Laurier University and University of Windsor in Canada. His research interests consist in Operations and Supply Chain Management, Quantitative Marketing and Industrial Economics using various techniques such as Statistical Models and Game Theory. His work has been published in journals such as European Journal of Operational Research, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, International Journal of Production Economics, and Annals of Operations Research.
My current research interests are multi-disciplinary including Environmental Sustainability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Ethics, Sustainable Supply Chains and Operations, Reverse Logistics, E-Commerce, and Business Intelligence.
28 research and policy publications in A*, A and B rated journals and around 40 conf publications. I have had more than 16 individual sponsored and consultancy projects to the tune of 180 crores.My teaching experience of past 15 years has been in the domains of Finance, Innovation and Entrepreneurship across management schools in India and abroad, including IIT Kanpur, IIMs, RGIPT,CBS, Denmark, University of Connecticut, Connecticut, USA, SP Jain Symbiosis (SIBM Pune), to name a few.I have served at various administrative positions while my tenure at IIT Kanpur - DoRA, Prof in Charge: Investment Committee (IC), Prof. in Charge: Innovation & Incubation, Prof in Charge: Motwani Incubator & Accelerator (MIA), Head: SIDBI Innovation and Incubation Center, Faculty Coordinator: Entrepreneurship Cell (E Cell) and Professor in Charge: Science & Technology Park.During my tenure, I have guided 2 post-doctoral students and 5 Ph.D. students. I presently have 10 Ph.D. students.
My research interest has been in the domain of Entrepreneurship. Over a period of time, my interests evolved in the specific domains of green entrepreneurship and women entrepreneurship. I have published three journal papers and one book chapter relevant to these research areas.
I am the Acting Associate Provost in the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce (Academic Partnerships and International). I was formerly the Associate Head of School-Partnerships for the La Trobe Business School and Head of Department of Management, Sport and Tourism and Head of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Marketing in the La Trobe Business School. Other previous roles have also been as Director of Executive Education and Director of Global Citizenship. My areas of expertise include corporate governance, corporate responsibility, leadership and management and employee relations. I've taught extensively in international programs including Denmark, England, Vietnam, Mongolia, Singapore and Malaysia. My current research projects include corporate governance, supply chain, sustainability and leadership
My research is focused on investigation of different paradigms used in understanding organisational priorities. My work in the area of outsourcing in health management uses Transaction Cost theory and Agency theory to explore the purpose of the firm and its operations through board and managers’ decision-making. Simultaneously my work looks more broadly at governance, organisational structures and decision-making. This work explores the dichotomy between shareholder and stakeholder foci and through international empirical work has explored the priorities of boards of management, managers, industry groups, rating agencies and other actors in the governance system. In addition my work is continuing to explore the intersection of governance, CSR and other internal systems such as human resources, supply chain and industrial relations.
Over 20 years’ experience in academics and industry. Founder of Centre for Energy Regulation (CER) and Energy Analytics Lab (EAL) at IIT Kanpur. Editor of Regulatory Insights – a newsletter of CER, and Power Chronicle – a newsletter of EAL. Worked earlier with Haryana Electricity Regulatory Commission. Regularly contributes regulatory and policy submissions to the relevant Ministries and the Electricity Regulatory Commissions (ERCs). Member of the State Advisory Committee for DERC and MSERC. Undertaken assignments with the ADB, the World Bank, the IEA, the UNCTAD, the UNU/IAS, the AIT, University of Cambridge, the Planning Commission as well as the industry. He has been a member of numerous committees/working groups related to the power sector
Areas of interest include energy economics, power system economics, power sector reforms and regulation, power market development, energy/electricity pricing, renewable energy, smart grid, energy analytics, energy and climate policy modelling, clean transport, project financing and cross-border energy cooperation
Jothsna Rajan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Management Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. A public policy scholar with a background in management, her work is situated at the intersection of public administration and management. She studies how policy initiatives can stimulate local and regional economies and how public and private organizations navigate strategic partnerships. Jothsna holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Indore, and a PhD in Public Policy from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
Jothsna is a public policy scholar studying strategies that are employed toward effective value co-creation in inter-organizational partnerships to effect regional development and better delivery of public services. Her research focuses on two main phenomena (1) mananging processes in collaborative interorganizational networks and (2) effectiveness of public policy measures in improving outcomes in the societies within which they are embedded.
Professor of Entrepreneurship at La Trobe Business School. With an international reputation in entrepreneurship education (learning & teaching, research and practice), Alex is the recipient of Stanford Technology Ventures and Global Innovation Management Scholarships and internationally awarded finalist in the Entrepreneurship Education Award from the United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE). Being a recipient of an Australian Learning and Teaching Citation for excellence in entrepreneurship education, Alex also received Faculty excellence awards in learning & teaching and research. He is the recipient of numerous best paper and esteemed paper awards from leading academic conferences and journals and sits on the editorial board for leading journals in the discipline
Dr. Suman Saurabh is a faculty of Finance at IIT Kanpur. His research interests include areas of Corporate Finance and Behavioral Finance. Some of his ongoing areas of research are examining the issues such payout policy of firms, overconfidence among managers & investors, influence of policy uncertainty on corporate outcomes and capital structure choices and insolvency. He holds a Ph.D. degree from IIM Ahmedabad. He also has a Master of Business Economics from the University of Delhi and a B.Tech. degree from IIT (BHU) Varanasi. He teaches courses on Mergers and Acquisitions, Financial Management, Advanced Corporate Finance, Security Analysis & Portfolio Management, Accounting & Finance, Derivatives Contracts, Financial Engineering.
He has received Senate citation for Teaching Excellence for multiple subjects taught in the last few years at IIT Kanpur. He regularly contributes to the startup ecosystem at IIT Kanpur as a Finance expert and has taught in the executive education programs at IIT Kanpur.
Some of his ongoing areas of research are examining the issues such payout policy of firms, overconfidence among managers & investors, influence of policy uncertainty on corporate outcomes and capital structure choices and insolvency.
Darren Henry is a Professor of Finance in the La Trobe Business School at La Trobe University and is currently the Finance Discipline Lead. He has significant experience teaching finance subjects at undergraduate and postgraduate (including MBA) levels. He was the recipient of a 2020 AAUT Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning. He has a distinguished academic publication record in leading international journals in the finance and accounting areas. He has supervised 30 PhD students to successful completion and has 40 successful Honours student thesis completions. He was previously the Head of Department of Economics and Finance, Finance and Business Degree Program Directors and has undertaken numerous other administrative, service and academic discipline responsibilities.
Empirical corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, investor actions and decision-making, institutional ownership and activism, capital structure issues, dividend policy
Vipin B is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Management Engineering, IIT Kanpur. Vipin completed his PhD in Operations Management from IIT Madras in 2017. He is a recipient of DAAD fellowship. His research interests include decision theory, supply chain contracts, behavioral operations, sustainable operations, and healthcare operations management. His research articles have appeared in journals such as European Journal of Operational Research, Omega, Resources, Conservation & Recycling, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Annals of Operations Research, and Vaccine. He presents his research findings regularly at top conferences in the areas of operations and supply chain management across the globe. He co-edited the book titled “Frontiers in Operations and Supply chain Management”, published by Springer. He is an avid traveler.
My research interests are in operations and supply chain management having applications to the circular economy, economic policy, and healthcare. I use optimization techniques, game theory, and system dynamics to analyze the problems of my interest. My research objectives include designing contracts and networks for supply chains of different domains, providing economic policy recommendations for managing circular economy activities, understanding the behavior of agents, and developing models to describe the behavior.
Dr Singh is an international award-winning Senior Lecturer who has a track record as a Lead CI in most of the funded research projects, internally and externally worth a combined total of more than AUD 140,000. Dr Singh has published, more than 65 publications: 21 journal papers (mostly Q1&2), three edited books, 16 book chapters, one textbox, one report, 8 referred conference proceedings and 16 non-academic publications (all as first author). Dr Singh research expertise include internationalisation of higher education, employability capitals and career development of international graduates/employees. Dr Singh has successfully supervised three cross-discipline students within La Trobe and currently supervising two PhD students internationally (i.e. United States).
I have expertise in internationalisation of higher education research, employability and career development of international students, graduates, international academics and highly skilled migrant women. Specifically, I have led nearly 15 research projects to understand international students’ and graduates’ as well as international academics experiences not only in Australia but beyond. In particular, I have investigated international students’ academic success in Malaysia, blended learning experiences of international students in Australia, employability experiences of international students as well as graduates in Australia, China, Malaysia, Scotland and the United Kingdom, interactions and engagement levels between international and domestic postgraduate students in Australia, mental health awareness of international students and international students’ positive contribution to Australian society and community. In addition, I also seek to further unpack international academic experiences in leadership positions at Australian universities and ‘invisible’ international academics learning and teaching experiences during COVID-19 globally.
Dr. Amit Shukla is an Associate Professor in the area of OB-HRM/Marketing and is currently affiliated with the Management Department, IIT Kanpur. He earned his PhD and MBA from IIM Lucknow, and B. Tech. (Gold Medalist) from IIT Dhanbad.Dr. Shukla has over nine years of rich industrial experience in the domains of metals and mining, and academia. Prior to IIT Kanpur, he was associated with IIM Shillong.His research work has been published in many reputable national and international journals, as well as in conference proceedings. Dr. Shukla has conducted many Management Development Programs for organizations like LIC of India, IOCL, NMDC Ltd., NEPA etc.
Dr. Amit Shukla works in two broad areas – emergent employment relationship and academic excellence. On the former, his main focus has been identification of pathways to keep the employment contract effective and relevant with the changing times. Apart from other things, he has remodelled the concept of psychological ownership in the Indian context. This conceptualisation has been widely tested and validated by his team and scholars from other culturally similar regions. Likewise, his team comprising M. Tech. students have worked on several themes related to attainment of academic excellence in higher education, covering viewpoints of both students and faculty. The research themes include student involvement, student empowerment and autonomy, faculty publication, academic and holistic performance among others. Dr. Shukla and team have contributed a host of research papers, magazine articles, case studies and conference proceedings.
Dr. Ali Rashidi is a Senior Lecturer in Construction and Engineering Management at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. He is also an Adjunct Researcher and Lecturer at Monash University, with campuses in Australia and Malaysia. Prior to joining La Trobe, he gained extensive experience as a research fellow and lecturer in construction engineering and management at three different campuses (Clayton, Caulfield, and Malaysia) of Monash University in two regions (Australia and Malaysia). He has served as the research theme coordinator of Digital Project Management from 2020 to 2023 at the Building 4.0 Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) program in Australia
Dr Ali Rashidi looks forward to research opportunities that involve facilitating learning and upskilling the construction workforce in the areas of construction safety and skill training for modern methods of construction. Ali is highly experienced in working on multi-disciplinary projects, with a particular focus on computer-integrated design and construction management, such as Building Information Modelling (BIM/ Digital Twin and Extended Reality (MR/AR/VR + Serious Game) applications for project coordination and progress monitoring throughout the project lifecycle.
Completed his undergraduate degree in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from Visvesvaraya NIT, Nagpur, India in 2005 and PhD from the department of Materials Engineering at the IISc, Bangalore, India in 2010. Worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada before joining as Assistant Prof at IIT Kanpur in 2012. He has established the Microstructure-Texture-Stress Laboratory at IIT Kanpur and is presently carrying out research in the broad domain of crystallographic texture, mechanical behaviour of materials and materials processing. His current research interests include in situ experiments using electron back scatter diffraction, synchrotron and neutron diffraction, complex concentrated alloys and additive manufacturing. He is recipient of the Young Metallurgist of the Year award and the INSA medal for young scientist and is working towards establishing high throughput experimentation facilities tow
Our group is interested in establishing structure-property linkages in metallic materials using advanced characterization tools like in situ electron back scatter diffraction, synchrotron diffraction accompanied with full field and mean field crystal plasticity simulations for applications in transport and energy. The present focus is one additive manufacturing and high entropy alloys for providing new processes and materials for light weighting for a clean and green environment.
Binh Tran is a lecturer and researcher at the Centre for Data Analytics and Cognition (CDAC), La Trobe University, Australia. She received her PhD degree in Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics from Victoria University of Wellington (VUW), Wellington, New Zealand, in 2018. Her expertise includes evolutionary computation in feature manipulation, including feature selection and construction on high dimensional data, and machine learning. Her works have been published in top peer-reviewed journals in evolutionary computation such as IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, Pattern Recognition. She is a member of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS). In addition, she has served as a reviewer for high-quality journals and top conferences in evolutionary computation, data mining, and artificial intelligence.
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Dr. Sen joined the Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur as an Assistant Professor in December 2008 and promoted to full Professor in November 2018. Dr. Sen earned his Ph. D. from the Indian Association for Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, in 2006 and did his post-doctoral research work until 2008 in Molecular Spectroscopy Laboratory, RIKEN, Japan. His prime research interests are methodology development, femtosecond and picosecond ultrafast laser spectroscopy, biophysical and solution chemistry.
Major research interests include organic chemistry, chemical design and synthesis, bio active natural products, self-assembling functional materials and cocrystal technology.
Prof Sandeep Verma is a Professor at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur with affiliations to Chemistry, Center for Nanoscience, Center for Environmental Science and Engineering, and Mehta Family Center for Engineering in Medicine. His research interests include chemical neuroscience, small molecule-stem cell modulation, and new antibiotics. With about 200 publications and several patents till date, his work has been recognized by the Distinguished Alumnus Award of Banaras Hindu University, CRSI Silver Medal, J C Bose Fellowship, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, DAE Outstanding Investigator Award, and Swarnajayanti Fellowship, to name a few. He is an elected Fellow of all the three Indian science academies: Indian National Science Academy, Indian Academy of Sciences, and National Academy of Sciences, India, Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK), and also a Senior Fellow, Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz, Germany. He is an Associate Editor of Chemical Communications and serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of ChemBioChem (Wiley).
Professor Sandeep Verma's research interests include chemical neuroscience, small molecule-stem cell modulation, and new antibiotics.
Dr. Dharmaraja Allimuthu is a chemical biologist joined as assistant professor of chemistry at IIT-Kanpur, whose expertise span around chemical synthesis and drug discovery. He has expertise in synthesis, chemical proteomics and high-throughput screening of drug-repurposing library and in- house synthesized small molecules in a high-content imaging platform and mass spectral screening. In addition, Dharma has worked on conjugating small molecules and fluorophores with antibodies for monitoring protein levels in disease phenotypes. Dharma was recently awarded the Har-Gobind Khorana Innovative Young Biotechnologist award with grant to explore chemical-induced protein degradation in cancer cells for the identification of high efficiency therapeutic agents.
Our lab research interests converge at the interface of chemistry and biology aimed at discovering new therapeutics and unraveling new druggable targets in disease phenotypes. We will exploit the potential of phenotypic screening and chemoproteomics for drug discovery and uncovering the mechanistic targets of our lead small molecules. The recent success of covalent therapeutics that target disease-relevant proteins particularly kinomes in cancer led to the discovery of several potent and effective therapeutics. While covalent therapeutic offer durable target occupancy with superior potency, their use is jeopardized due to toxicity associated with the covalent inhibition of undesired target proteins. Therefore, hypothesis-driven approaches involving target-based drug design and discovery-driven strategies for the identification of unique covalent small molecules are emerging as powerful alternatives and are the major focus of our lab. In parallel to covalent therapeutics, our lab is working on developing trigger-inducible small molecule-based proteolysis activating chimeras (PROTACs) for driving the degradation of protein of interest, organelles, and proteins assemblies in disease phenotypes.
Ritika Gautam obtained her PhD in bioinorganic chemistry under the guidance of Professor Elisa Tomat (University of Arizona, USA) in 2017 where she was David F. O’Brien Scholar and Galileo Circle Scholar in Chemistry. Afterward, she became a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Kim Janda at the Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California. In 2019, she moved back to India and commenced her independent research group at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. Her research group focuses on engineering metal-based diagnostics and therapeutics at the interface of biological inorganic chemistry, synthetic immunotherapeutic, and medicinal chemistry. Off the clock, she's her 2.5-year-old toddler's tireless playmate.
Exploring Theragnostics: Bridging Inorganic Chemistry and Translational Medicine for Health and Disease Biological Inorganic Chemistry is a burgeoning field in science. Our key strategy is to utilize modern inorganic, organometallic, and supramolecular chemistry to design and develop novel metal-based drugs that has capability to alter cellular metal trafficking and homeostasis to combat emerging pathogens and infection. We target metal – ligand interaction dynamics for site-selective drug discovery. The rapid emerging investigation in the field of metalloenzymes and coordination chemistry is establishing a new platform for utilization of metal-biologically relevant ligand interactions for development of new drugs with therapeutic application for illnesses, such as, neurodegenerative disorders, cancer, metabolic or autoimmune syndromes, and microbial infections. Specifically, the project includes, a). Design and synthesis of pharmaceutically relevant drugs by employing metal – ligand interactions dynamics, b). Synthesis of transition metal complexes with a potential to undergo biological processes like, electron transfer, small molecule catalytic activation and redox sensing, c). explore new avenues for these ligands and metal complexes in the field of therapeutics, diagnostics, immune modulators, anion recognition, and metal ion sensors, and d). utilize proteomics and metabolomics profile to establish the mechanism of action and determine the target site.
Received PhD in Biotechnology in 1994 from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee and conducted postdoctoral research at Nagoya University, Japan and Lund University, Sweden. I worked as faculty of Biotechnology in Lund University, Sweden and also as a group leader in a Biotechnology company in Sweden. I am currently Chair Professor of Bioengineering at the Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, and Head, Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering and Coordinator for Centre of Excellence in Materials in Medicine, School of Medical Sciences and Technology at IIT Kanpur. I am currently visiting professor at Aalto University, Finland. I have published more than 250 peer reviewed research papers and have many patents granted/filed in my area of research. I serve as the editor of 06 books in Biomedical Engineering area. I am elected fellow of various academies in India and internationally and have been conferred with honorary doctorate by Aalto University, Finland.
Biomaterials, Tissue Engineering, Regenerative Medicine, Drug Delivery, Stem Cell Technology, Environmental Biotechnology, 3D Printing, Additive manufacturing, Medical Devices, Bone Implants, Nerve Regeneration, Cardiovascular Disease Interventions, Water Purification, Adhesives, Bone Tuberculosis, Anti-microbial Resistance, Mastitis, Lab-on-chip, Bioseparations, Cell Separations, Bioprocess Engineering and Nanotechnology
Primarily a geographer by training, Lauren was a Lead Author with the Australasia chapter of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Sixth Assessment Report on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. She has a MSc in Environmental Change and Management and a DPhil in Human Geography from the University of Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar, and a BSc (Hons) in Ecology from the University of Melbourne.
Lauren is Director of the La Trobe Climate Change Adaptation Lab. With colleagues within and affiliated with the Lab, she is using innovative social research to examine the impacts of climate change on cthe sectors of society that sustain us (including environmental sustainability, government, agriculture, water, education, health and emergency management); the far-reaching implications of these impacts for our collective wellbeing; and the deep, multi-level adaptation required. As part of this, the Lab is complementing conventional approaches to adaptation by exploring the adaptation of work itself (formal and informal, paid and unpaid) including the escalating work of trying to adapt to and mitigate climate change. Current projects focus on the "institutional work" of making sense of and responding to climate change.
I am working as an Assistant Professor in the department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK), India, since April 2015. I completed B.Sc. (2005), and M.Sc. (2007) in Physics from University of Calcutta and Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IITD), respectively. I received my doctorate (PhD) degree in Geophysics from the department of Geology and Geophysics, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IITKgp), India, in December 2013. Prior to joining at IITK, I was working as Project Scientist at the Theoretical Modelling Group, National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI), India. I am a life member of Indian Geophysical Union (IGU), an associate member of Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG), USA; and annual member of AGU, and EAGE.
I work on exploration geophysics field to understand shallow crustal configuration and to delineate natural resources employing integrated geophysical approach. I use gravimeter, magnetometer, electrical and EM equipment to acquire related geophysical data. I also work on time series analysis (mainly on reflection seismic data), geophysical data enhancement, interpretation, and subsurface modeling. My current research interest includes near surface geophysical applications (for groundwater, archeological site, and shallow subsurface investigations), geothermal exploration, geophysical data enhancement, interpretation and modeling.
Vanessa Ratten is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Department of Management, La Trobe Business School at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. She is the Program Director of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation courses. She teaches Entrepreneurial Business Planning, Managing Innovation in Organisations, Corporate Venturing, Analyse & Ideate and Entrepreneurship. She has previously been on the business faculty of Duquesne University, the University of Queensland, Queensland University of Technology and Deakin University. She has a PhD from the UQ Business School at the University of Queensland, which focused on the role of organisational learning in an alliance context in the Information and Communication Technology industry.
Entrepreneurship, innovation
Intersts-fluid mechanics and heat transfer,I received my Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities (2019) for my dissertation on experimental study of high-Rayleigh-number thermal convection in enclosures under the guidance of Dr. Richard J. Goldstein. I obtained my Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Madras (2012) and Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering with honours from University of Calicut (2007). During the intermediate years between my academic pursuits, I gained industrial experience working at General Electric Power and Water (2012-2014) as an Edison Engineer and as an Assistant Manager in the Product Development division at Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (2007-2009). I hold memberships in professional societies such as The Institution of Engineers (India), The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and Indian Society for Heat and Mass Transfer.
To this end, I formed the Experimental Thermofluids Laboratory at the IITK that aims to engage in methodical experimentation by delving deep to unearth various facets of a particular problem and understanding the underlying physics to better visualize and model many natural phenomena. I hope to leverage my past research expertise in the broad field of experimental/analytical fluid mechanics and heat transfer, including topics such as buoyancy-driven convection at high Rayleigh numbers, two-phase flows in mini-tubes, heat and mass transfer analogies, high-speed flows, and gas turbine heat transfer, to unravel the numerous challenges in this domain. The present areas-thermal convection in porous media, pool boiling in emulsions and dielectric fluids, jet breakup behaviour,instability in immiscible liquid-liquid systems,battery thermal management in electric vehicles
I am currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Aerospace Engineering Department of IIT Kanpur (2019 - present). Prior to that, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Engineering Science Department of the University of Oxford, UK (2017 - 2019). I completed my PhD from the College of Engineering of Swansea University, UK (2014 - 2017). I am a recipient of the Zienkiewicz Scholarship from Swansea University, UK covering full tuition fees at international rate and generous living expenses for pursuing doctoral study. My research work was recognized as the best PhD in engineering among all the departments and colleges of the university. Before moving to the UK for pursuing PhD, I received Junior Research Fellowship from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. I was awarded the MHRD Scholarship for completing masters study at the same institute (2011-2013). My master's thesis in the field of inverse problems was recognized as the best thesis in structures with highest grade.
Interested in multi-scale and multi-physics analysis of physical systems with the epicenter set at mechanics.My research aspiration lies in a broad area of science starting from static and dynamic response of structures to mechanical aspects of computational material science including cutting edge developments of nano-sciences and bio-inspired structural systems. The recent research focus of my group is on the emerging fields of stochastic multi-scale mechanics of engineered materials (leading to extreme yet useful mechanical properties which are not available in natural materials) and structures such as advanced multi-functional composites and mechanical metamaterials including the aspects of uncertainty quantification and reliability analysis. My research activities are directly relevant to advanced aerospace, mechanical and civil industries at the materials and structures level.
Research Publications: www.tmukhopadhyay.com/publications
Dr. Maiti received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA. In 2010 he did his post-doctoral research in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Pennsylvania State University. He received “P K Kelkar Young Faculty Research Fellowship”for outstanding research. He is also recipient of the IEI Young Engineers Award 2014-2015. During his PhD he received “Kennametal Graduate Student Fellowship” and PennState Student Leadership Stipend Award for the academic excellence and achievements. He specializes in electronic materials and nanophotonics. He has formed his research group “Plasmonics and Perovskites Laboratory” at IIT Kanpur with the help of generous funding from DST-SERB, ISRO, CPRI and IITK. His research interests span the areas of Thermoelectrics, Plasmonics, Photovoltaics and Oxide electronic materials and devices. However, a common thread in his research is to address the global energy problem by developing novel.
Waste-heat recycling, Thermoelectrics, Clean Energy, Perovskite Solar Cell, Plasmonics, Oxide Electronics, Memory Devices, RRAM
Sathesh Mariappan is currently serving as an Associate Professor at the Department of Aerospace Engineering in Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He completed his Bachelors at Madras Institute of Technology, 2007 and obtained his direct Ph. D., Indian Institute of Technology Madras, 2012, both in Aerospace Engineering. Before joining IIT Kanpur, he worked in the Department of Helicopters, German Aerospace Center, Goettingen as an Alexander von Humboldt Post-Doctoral fellow. He is a recipient of INAE Young Engineer Award, IEI Young Engineer Award (Aerospace division), International Exchanges award (co-applicant) from The Royal Society – London. He works in the broad areas of combustion driven oscillations in aerospace engines, optical flow diagnostics and rotorcraft aerodynamics. He conducts both theoretical and experimental investigations to understand the underlying fundamental processes and their relevance to practical scenarios.
Our group focuses broadly on two research themes: combustion driven oscillations and advanced optical flow diagnostics. We perform investigations in our in-house developed test rigs, which are instrumented with state of art measuring instruments. Our investigations are mainly focused to understand the fundamental mechanism, causing these combustion driven oscillations. We perform experiments in a wide variety of configurations, starting from a simple Bunsen type burner to a realistic gas turbine type annular combustor. We have a team performing analytical/numerical investigations. Their results and predictions are used to validate our experimental findings. Currently, our group is working in the following topics. i) Physics informed machine learning methods to study combustion instability, ii) Dynamics of vortex shedding and variable area combustors, iii) Developtment of new class of temperature sensitive paints and iv) Coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy for combustion applications.
Sathesh Mariappan is currently serving as an Associate Professor at the Department of Aerospace Engineering in Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He completed his Bachelors at Madras Institute of Technology, 2007 and obtained his direct Ph. D., Indian Institute of Technology Madras, 2012, both in Aerospace Engineering. Before joining IIT Kanpur, he worked in the Department of Helicopters, German Aerospace Center, Goettingen as an Alexander von Humboldt Post-Doctoral fellow. He is a recipient of INAE Young Engineer Award, IEI Young Engineer Award (Aerospace division), International Exchanges award (co-applicant) from The Royal Society – London. He works in the broad areas of combustion driven oscillations in aerospace engines, optical flow diagnostics and rotorcraft aerodynamics. He conducts both theoretical and experimental investigations to understand the underlying fundamental processes and their relevance to practical scenarios
Hardware Platforms for Neuromorphic Computing, Hardware Security Primitives, Novel Device Architectures for Scaling CMOS Technology, Analytical and Compact Modeling of Semiconductor Devices, Non-volatile Memories, and Spintronics.
Organi hydrides and metal hydrides development for the activation of the proton, carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide.
Prof. Mechler completed a BSc/MSc degree in chemistry and physics in 1996 and obtained his PhD in physics/materials science in 2001 at University of Szeged (formerly Attila Jozsef university), Hungary. He received a NATO Science for Peace Advanced Postdoctoral Fellowship to work at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he spent three years while his interest shifted to bioinspired materials and biomolecule interactions. After arriving in Australia in 2004 as the recipient of a Monash Fellowship awarded by Monash University, he established his independent research program on biomolecule self-assembly, focusing on membrane biophysics and peptide-membrane interactions, while maintaining an interest in bioinspired materials and bioactive natural products. He has joined La Trobe University staff in 2009 and has been working there since. He has been full professor since 2021.
Bioinspired self-assembling nanostructures: Self-assembly is nature's way of building complex structures from molecular building blocks. Cell membranes, silk fibres and proteins are examples of this process where final structure is the product of a multitude of second order interactions – individually weak, non-covalent bonds between adjacent molecules, the collective effect of which is a strong, stable superstructure.Adapting the self-assembly process to the design of complex nanomaterials from unnatural building blocks requires the study of the natural processes and establishing design rules. This will eventually lead to the development of a "molecular lego" toolbox where the chemical building blocks can be selected at will to create complex nanostructures. We study the principles of self-assembly in lipid membranes, peptide fibrillogenezis and peptide-membrane interactions, and apply the design rules in the development of biomimetic membrane platforms, novel peptide antibiotics, antivirals, and peptide based metamaterials.
Prof. Mechler completed a BSc/MSc degree in chemistry and physics in 1996 and obtained his PhD in physics/materials science in 2001 at University of Szeged (formerly Attila Jozsef university), Hungary. He received a NATO Science for Peace Advanced Postdoctoral Fellowship to work at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he spent three years while his interest shifted to bioinspired materials and biomolecule interactions. After arriving in Australia in 2004 as the recipient of a Monash Fellowship awarded by Monash University, he established his independent research program on biomolecule self-assembly, focusing on membrane biophysics and peptide-membrane interactions, while maintaining an interest in bioinspired materials and bioactive natural.
Structure and dynamics control chemistry. Our broad interest is to gain the physical insight of this control in small molecules (Ultrafast-Spectroscopy) to complex biosystems (Biophysical- Chemistry) and solution (Solution-Chemistry), using established spectroscopic tools and new methodologies (Methodology-Development) as needed.
Dr. Krishanu Biswas is current working as Ranjit Singh Chair Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of IIT Kanpur. Dr. Biswas has made significant contribution towards understanding of the several important scientific and technological aspects of metallurgy and materials engineering. The research work performed by him ranges from development of complex concentrated high entropy alloys, understanding the solidification behaviour of complex concentrated alloys, novel processing of ceramic composites, understanding the alloying behaviour at nanoscale, development of bulk alloy catalysis for hydrogen energy and environment. His recent research activities involve research on sintering of nanomaterials, nanocrystalline high entropy alloys (HEAs), ionic nanoparticles, graphene etc. His recent work on multicomponent multiprinciple alloys and ceramic is commendable. He has published over 210 papers in international repute peer reviewed journals and delivered 42nvited talks in different national and international conferences. He has completed 12 projects and currently 4 other projects are under progress. He could garner total funding to the tune of USD 50,000 in a span of 12 years. The projects include small projects from Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and Indian National Science Academy (INSA) to bigger projects fromDepartment of Science and Technology (DST), Department of Bio- technology (DBT), Board of Research on Nuclear Sciences (BRNS).
We are interested to design, developing materials for energy applications. The design will involve simulatation and experiments to find out the efficacy of the materials. I am also interested in waste management and recovery of materials from electronic waste.
Vaibhav Arghode is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Sustainable Energy Engineering, IIT Kanpur. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering in 2011 from the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA and later worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia-Tech, Atlanta, USA. His research interests are in the field of reacting flows, heat transfer, solar thermal systems, computational fluid dynamics and experimental methods.
Solar thermal systems, heat-driven cooling systems
Vaibhav Arghode is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Sustainable Energy Engineering, IIT Kanpur. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering in 2011 from the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA and later worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia-Tech, Atlanta, USA. His research interests are in the field of reacting flows, heat transfer, solar thermal systems, computational fluid dynamics and experimental methods.
Solar thermal systems, heat-driven cooling systems
Basker sundararaju received his doctorate from universite de Rennes1 in France in 2011. He was awarded an AvH fellowship for a two-year postdoctoral stay at the Max-Planck Institute in Muelheim. In 2013, he began his independent career at IIT Kanpur, where his research focuses on catalysis mediated by [Fe], [Co], and [Ni] base metals for functionalization of C-H bonds, the hydrogen neutral concept, and the recycling of wastes. BS has participated in various collaboration projects within the institute with colleagues from other departments for the development of nanomaterials for crop production (with ICAR, Hyderabad), the identification of novel molecules for arsenic detection, and international collaboration with researchers from the United Kingdom, France, Russia, etc. for basic and translational research. In his independent career, he has published 45 papers, cited over 3500 times with H-index of 32. He received various awards, to name a few, the Thieme chemistry journal award, the BRNS young scientist award, the Merck Young Scientist award, the CRSI bronze medal, and an invitation to become a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC). He served on the editorial advisory board of ACS Catalysis and as associate editor of the journal heterocyclic chemistry during his early career.
The accumulation of non-degradable, man-made plastics in our environment after their usage by humans is a great concern. Karl Ziegler invented the first organometallic catalyst for the conversion of ethylene to polyethylene seventy years ago. Since then, a myriad of catalysts have been created in both academic and industrial laboratories for polymer manufacturing (359 million metric tonnes/year) for a variety of applications/useful commodities. However, the downside of this invention is the accumulation of non-degradable plastic waste that needs to be recycled to save the planet. Despite recent efforts by chemists to make biodegradable polymers, the large amount of plastic waste that has already accumulated is cause for alarm. As chemists, we sought to provide a solution by turning polymer (plastic) waste into monomer (Reverse engineering of polymerization!) to avoid the use of conventional mechanical recycling technologies, which are more expensive for recycling than the cost of polymer manufacture. With this introduction, we intended to isolate homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts for the chemical recycling of polymer utilising molecular hydrogen as the only reductant. Recently, we demonstrated the conversion of e-waste such as circular discs into its monomer employing a low-cost cobalt catalyst with a turnover number (TON) more than 50,000.
Prakash Chandra Mondal obtained Ph.D. degree working on surface chemistry at the University ofDelhi (2013). He then moved to the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, and worked on molecularspintronics (2013–2016). Later, he worked on molecular electronics at the University of Alberta,Canada. Before joining the Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpuras an assistant professor in 2019, he was a Marie-Curie Post-doctoral Fellow at the University ofValencia, Spain. At present, he works on molecular electronics and spintronics, energy storage, and electrochromic. He has been serving as the Analyst Board Member since 2021
Dr. Mondal research group at IIT Kanpur focuses on the design and fabrication of nanoscale molecular thin-films for various applications including molecular electronics, spintronics, optoelectronics, electrochromic devices, and energy applications. The laboratory is well-equipped with state-of-the-art wet-chemicals and device measurements. The lab. has modern fume-hood for performing chemical reactions under high temperatures and under inert conditions. Besides, a fully automated rotary evaporator, low-temperature centrifuge, sonicator, spin-coater, Potentiostat, Gamry impedance analyzer, oscilloscope, polarized microscope, two-port glove box, ATR-FTIR, temperature-controlled UV-Vis spectrophotometer (200-2700 nm), four-probe electrical measurements set-up. The group at present has 6 Ph.D. students, one post-doc, 3 MSc project students, and one visiting scientist from Dhaka University, Bangladesh about to join us. Recent work from the group has been published in high-impact journals including Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Coord. Chem. Rev., J. Mat. Chem. C, Nat. Rev. Chem., Adv. Funct. Mater. At present, the group is focusing on the fabrication of porous electrode materials from bio-waste for making nanoscale molecular films for solid-sate electrochemical supercapacitor applications.
Dr. Abhilash Patel is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur. Prior to this, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Control Engineering Synthetic Biology Group at Imperial College London. He did his PhD from the Electrical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, in 2021. He has received the M.Tech. degree in Control and Automation from the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, in 2015 and B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Rourkela, India, in 2012. His research interests include C
Control Systems, Microrobots, Systems Biology, Synthetic Biology, Power System Control
I joined IIT Kanpur as Assistant Professor in the Department of Sustainable Energy Engineering in November 2022. After graduating with a B.Tech in Engineering Physics from IIT Madras in 2009, I obtained my Ph.D. in Materials Science from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Pittsburgh PA, USA in 2014. Following this, I was an R&D Engineer in the Vacuum Coatings group of Vitro Architectural Glass (formerly PPG Glass) in Pittsburgh, PA USA from 2014-2019. In 2020, I joined University of Oxford as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Materials.My doctoral dissertation was on the study of metal-polymer hybrid materials as transparent conductors for flexible optoelectronic device applications. At Vitro, I worked on designing and developing large-area optical coatings for low-emissivity/IR-reflecting
My focus is on engineering materials and interfaces for: Energy Storage (primarily solid-state batteries), Multi-layer spectrally-selective thin film coatings, and Building-integrated photovoltaics. Through advanced ex-situ, in-situ and operando characterization techniques, I am also interested in trying to understand microstructural, chemical, and electrochemical evolution in the bulk and at interfaces.
I joined the Chemistry department of IIT Kanpur in July 2007. Prior to that I had post-doc assignments in CNRS, Marseille, France and Institute of Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland College Park. I completed my PhD in Chemistry from Stanford University. My PhD work with H.C. Andersen involved analytical development of kinetic theory of liquids, beyond the dilute gas limit. My current research interests are in modeling of crystal growth of classical semiconductors. In addition to research, I enjoy teaching Physical Chemistry courses and developing curriculum.
We work on modeling the spontaneous formation of nanostructures during growth of semiconductor crystals. The time-scales involved in these processes are long compared to atomic scales but the size-scales are compareable to the atomic scale. Towards this end, we develop coarse-grained models where the key process is surface diffusion and deposition. We use both continuum and atomistic modeling in the form of kinetic Monte Carlo simulations. We have applied our methods to the strained Si-Ge system, the Wurtzite GaN and ZnO crystals and to the growth of the 2D material, Silicene. Our simulations have confirmed the formation of nanostructures such as quantum dots and quantum dot molecules under different experimental conditions.
Debabrata Goswami, FInstP, FRSC, is a Professor (HAG) in the Department of Chemistry, as well as the Center for Lasers and Photonics, IIT Kanpur (India). He is also an alumnus of IIT Kanpur with an M.Sc. in Chemistry and went on to receive his Ph.D. degree from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (USA). In the subsequent years, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University, Boston, MA (USA) and a Research Associate at Brookhaven National Labs, New York (USA). He returned to India in 1998 as a Faculty member in Physics at TIFR, Mumbai. In 2003, he joined IIT Kanpur as an Associate Professor and became Professor in 2010. He has been invited to several reputed Institutes worldwide as a visiting Professor, including Princeton, MIT, Duke, etc. at the USA, Kyoto University at Japan, Max Plank (Garshin) in Germany, and many others (such as, IIT Bombay, IMSc Chennai, etc.) from India. His research has been recognized by the conferment of several academic and research accolades, some of which are the Hoechst Advanced Technology Division Industrial Affiliates Fellowship for outstanding academic record in Princeton, the International Senior Research Fellowship award of the Wellcome Trust (UK), the Swarnajayanti Fellowship of the Department of Science and Technology (Govt of India), Thathachary Science Award (India). His work has also been recognized by the 2019 Galileo Galilei award of the International Commission of Optics.
Prof. Goswami works at the frontiers of interdisciplinary research involving theoretical and experimental developments investigating the fundamental aspects of femtosecond laser-matter interactions. He has made significant contributions to quantum computing theory and has uncovered new insights by considering the theoretical elements of thermal lens generation and analysis. He has published over two hundred research articles, several book chapters, edited conference proceedings, and books. He is on the Editorial Board of several international journals. Additionally, he is the Associate Editor of Science Advances (AAAS) and the Editor-in-chief of Peer J Analytical Chemistry. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Institute of Physics (IOP), the Optica (formerly, OSA: Optical Society of America), and the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Presently, he is also the Chair of the Instrument Science and Technology Group of the IOP. His research has been supported by grants and funds by many Departments of Govt of India.
I did my Ph. D. from Indian Institute of science in molecular biophysics where I worked on peptides, their synthesis and conformation. After finishing post-docs at MIT, Cambridge, USA and the Karolinska Institute, Sweden I joined as a lecturand at the Sveriges Lantbruks University, Uppsala. I joined the faculty of the department of Chemistry at IIT Kanpur in 2000. I am a professor since 2012.
Environmental biodegradation, biochemistry and microbiology: Our group isolates microorganisms from industrial and domestic wastewater and other environments that specifically degrade certain common chemicals. We have already reported pseudomonas and agrobacterium that degrade mono- and di-substituted aromatics. We are now looking at the gene level to study the enzymes catalysing this metabolism. We are also looking at some of these proteins to study their thermal stability. We are also analysing the structure of these proteins after obtaining them from cryo-EM. These results are compared with structures in the PDB databank for discovering new protein motifs. Our analysis is currently then being used to supplement our experimental work.
Structure and electronic properties of molecules at interface of metal or semiconductor are of great importance in molecular semiconductor industry. The interest on molecular materials is fuelled due to its small size, highly tunable magnetic and electronic properties and plenty of choice. The molecules that imitate electronic functionalities like switches, diodes, rectifiers and wires - generally called - functional molecules are candidates for future electronic devices based on single molecules. Our research group investigate adsorbed functional molecules and molecular thin films on surface and interface. The specific research topics are, Electronic structure of molecular materials, Functional molecules on surfaces and interfaces, Surface science, Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM), Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM), X-ray photo-electron spectroscopy (XPS), Electron Microscopy, Electronic structure calculations.
Dr. Thiruvancheril G Gopakumar completed his BSc from Devaswom Board Pampa Collage, Mahatma Gandhi University in 1998. After completing his MSc in Physical Chemistry from School of Chemical Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University in 2001, he moved to National Chemical Laboratory, Pune for a year. He completed his PhD in 2006 at Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany in experimental condensed matter physics. Then he moved to Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, Germany and was a PostDoc till 2013. In 2013 he joined Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India as an Assistant Professor. Now he is working as an Associate Professor at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. His major areas of research are molecular thin films, 2D molecular materials for electronic applications, probe microscopy and XPS. So far, he has supervised five PhDs and mentored around 14 Master theses. He has around 53 research articles and two book chapter contributions. He was awarded the Young Research Fellowship of Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
Structure and electronic properties of molecules at interface of metal or semiconductor are of great importance in molecular semiconductor industry. The interest on molecular materials is fuelled due to its small size, highly tunable magnetic and electronic properties and plenty of choice. The molecules that imitate electronic functionalities like switches, diodes, rectifiers and wires - generally called - functional molecules are candidates for future electronic devices based on single molecules. Our research group investigate adsorbed functional molecules and molecular thin films on surface and interface. The specific research topics are, Electronic structure of molecular materials, Functional molecules on surfaces and interfaces, Surface science, Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM), Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM), X-ray photo-electron spectroscopy (XPS), Electron Microscopy, Electronic structure calculations.
Dr. Thiruvancheril G Gopakumar completed his BSc from Devaswom Board Pampa Collage, Mahatma Gandhi University in 1998. After completing his MSc in Physical Chemistry from School of Chemical Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University in 2001, he moved to National Chemical Laboratory, Pune for a year. He completed his PhD in 2006 at Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany in experimental condensed matter physics. Then he moved to Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, Germany and was a PostDoc till 2013. In 2013 he joined Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India as an Assistant Professor. Now he is working as an Associate Professor at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. His major areas of research are molecular thin films, 2D molecular materials for electronic applications, probe microscopy and XPS. So far, he has supervised five PhDs and mentored around 14 Master theses. He has around 53 research articles and two book chapter contributions. He was awarded the Young Research Fellowship of Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
Dr Dutton obtained his PhD in 2010 under Prof. Paul J. Ragogna at The University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada. His research focused on the Lewis acidic coordination chemistry of selenium and tellurium. He then moved onto a postdoctoral fellowship under Prof. Warren E. Piers at The University of Calgary supported by an NSERC PDF, researching mechanistic aspects of dihydrogen activation by boron containing species. In July 2011 Dr. Dutton took up a position as a Lecturer at La Trobe University. He was awarded a 3-year ARC DECRA in 2013 and promoted to Senior Lecturer in November 2014. In 2017 he was awarded an ARC Future Fellowship and promoted to Associate Professor, and Professor in 2021.
We examine the fundamental chemistry of a wide variety of systems (literally spanning the periodic table from beryllium to iodine) using both synthetic and computational theoretical approaches. Our broad approach is to discover new structure, bonding and reactivity for a variety of elements by placing those elements into unusual bonding environments and carefully observing what they do. To achieve this we target reactions that result in either very electron poor or very electron rich environments.
Subhajit Roy is currently an Associate Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He has multiple publications in areas spanning Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, Programming Languages and Formal Methods. He has served on the program committee of prestigious Artificial Intelligence and Programming Languages conferences like IJCAI, AAAI and CGO. He has delivered invited research talks at international workshops, universities and organizations. He has also taught at multiple ACM India Summer Schools and faculty development programs
My research interests lie in the intersection of Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, Formal Methods, and Programming Languages.
IIT Kanpur-La Trobe University Research Academy offers an excellent opportunity for faculty/staff from the two institutions for conducting collaborative research activities and partnering with leading industries as well as government agencies. This requires the interested faculty/staff to become a member of the Research Academy.
| Sr. No. | Name (click on name to see Research Area) |
Institute | Department | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gaurav Tiwari | IIT Kanpur | Civil Engineering |
Email: gauravt@iitk.ac.in Phone: +919079729936 URL: https://www.iitk.ac.in/new/gaurav-tiwar |
| 2 | Thuc Vo | LTU | Engineering |
Email: t.vo@latrobe.edu.au Phone: +61467553449 URL: https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/t3vo |
| 3 | Vipul Kumar Patel | LTU | Engineering |
Email: v.patel@latrobe.edu.au Phone: +61354447438 URL: https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/vpatel |
| 4 | Malka Halgmuge | LTU | Computer Science and Information Technology |
Email: m.halgamuge@latrobe.edu.au Phone: +61-03-94793740 URL: http://homepage.cs.latrobe.edu.au/mhalgamuge/ |
| 5 | Abhishek Gupta | IIT K | Electrical Engineering |
Email: gkrabhi@iitk.ac.in Phone: +91-7880968940 URL: http://home.iitk.ac.in/~gkrabhi/ |
| 6 | Sarvesh Mishra | IIT K | Mechanical Engineering |
Email: msarvesh@iitk.ac.in Phone: +91-8740021381 URL: https://www.iitk.ac.in/new/sarvesh-mishra |
| Sr. No. | Name (click on name to see Research Area) |
Institute | Department | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mallinga Marimuthu | LTU | Business School |
Email: M.Marimuthu@latrobe.edu.au Phone: +61394791933 URL: https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/mmarimuthu |
| 2 | Junsong Bian | LTU | Business School |
Email: j.bian@latrobe.edu.au Phone: +61432527551 URL: https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/j2bian/publications |
| 3 | BV Phani | IIT Kanpur | IME Department |
Email: bvphani@iitk.ac.in Phone: +91-9451423721 URL: https://iitk.ac.in/new/b-v-phani |
| 4 | Suzanne Young | LTU | Business School |
Email: s.h.young@latrobe.edu.au Phone: +61427473870 URL: https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/shyoung |
| 5 | Anoop Singh | LTU | IME Department |
Email: anoops@iitk.ac.in Phone: NA URL: http://www.iitk.ac.in/ime/anoops |
| 6 | Jothsna Rajan | IIT Kanpur | IME Department |
Email: jothsna@iitk.ac.in Phone: +91-9742462429 URL: https://www.iitk.ac.in/new/jothsna-rajan |
| 7 | Alex Maritz | LTU | Management & Marketing |
Email: a.maritz@latrobe.edu.au Phone: +61-394795176 URL: https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/amaritz |
| 8 | Suman Saurabh | IIT K | IME Department |
Email: sumans@iitk.ac.in Phone: +91-7600132932 URL: https://www.iitk.ac.in/new/suman-saurabh |
| 9 | Darren Henry | LTU | Business School |
Email: d.henry@latrobe.edu.au Phone: +61-3-94791730 URL: https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/djhenry |
| 10 | Vipin B | IIT K | IME Department |
Email: vipin@iitk.ac.in Phone: +91-9043807208 URL: https://www.iitk.ac.in/new/vipin-b |
| 11 | Jasvir Kaur Nachatar Singh | LTU | Management & Marketing |
Email: J.NachatarSingh@latrobe.edu.au Phone: +61450202511 URL: https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/jnachatarsin |
| 12 | Amit Shukla | IIT K | IME Department |
Email: skamit@iitk.ac.in Phone: +91-9005658850 URL: https://www.iitk.ac.in/new/amit-shukla |
| 13 | Ali Rashidi | LTU | Engineering |
Email: a.rashidi@latrobe.edu.au Phone: NA URL: https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/arashidi |
| Sr. No. | Name (click on name to see Research Area) |
Institute | Department | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nilesh Gurao | IIT K | Material Science & Engineering |
Email: npgurao@iitk.ac.in Phone: +91-8756562710 URL: https://sites.google.com/site/nileshgurao/home |
| Sr. No. | Name (click on name to see Research Area) |
Institute | Department | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Binh Tran | LTU | Accounting & Data Analytics |
Email: b.tran@latrobe.edu.au Phone: +61394791664 URL: https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/b2tran |
| 2 | Patrick Perlmutter | LTU | Chemistry |
Email: p.perlmutter@latrobe.edu.au Phone: +61-484225022 URL: http://home.iitk.ac.in/~psen/index.htm |
| 3 | Sandeep Verma | IIT K | Chemistry |
Email: sverma@iitk.ac.in Phone: +91-9935081810 URL: https://iitk.ac.in/new/sandeep-verma |
| 4 | Dharmaraja Allimuthu | IIT K | Chemistry |
Email: atdharma@iitk.ac.in Phone: +91-5122592086 URL: https://dachembiolab.weebly.com/ |
| 5 | Dharmaraja Allimuthu (2nd Proposal) | IIT K | Chemistry |
Email: atdharma@iitk.ac.in Phone: +91-5122592086 URL: https://dachembiolab.weebly.com/ |
| 6 | Ritika Gautam | IIT K | Chemistry |
Email: rgautam@iitk.ac.in Phone: +91-8928697102 URL: https://www.ritikagautam.co.in/ |
| 7 | Ashok Kumar | IIT K | Biological Sciences and Bioengineering |
Email: ashokkum@iitk.ac.in Phone: +91-9936491834 URL: https://www.iitk.ac.in/bsbe/ashok-kumar |
| Sr. No. | Name (click on name to see Research Area) |
Institute | Department | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lauren Richards | LTU | Humanities & Social Science |
Email: l.rickards@latrobe.edu.au Phone: NA URL: https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/lrickards |
| Sr. No. | Name (click on name to see Research Area) |
Institute | Department | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Animesh Mandal | IIT Kanpur | Earth Sciences |
Email: animeshm@iitk.ac.in Phone: +91-7080201041 URL: https://sites.google.com/view/animesh-mandal/home |
| 2 | Vanessa Ratten | LTU | Business |
Email: v.ratten@latrobe.edu.au Phone: +6194793063 URL: https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/vratten |
| Sr. No. | Name (click on name to see Research Area) |
Institute | Department | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Umesh Madann | IIT K | Mechanical Engineering |
Email: umadanan@iitk.ac.in Phone: +91-5122592162 URL: https://sites.google.com/view/umeshmadanan |
| 2 | Tanmoy Mukhopadhyay | IIT K | Aerospace Engineering |
Email: tanmoy@iitk.ac.in Phone: +91-9118821327 URL: http://www.tmukhopadhyay.com |
| 3 | Tanmoy Maiti | IIT K | Material Science & Engineering |
Email: tmaiti@iitk.ac.in Phone: +91-5122596599 URL: http://home.iitk.ac.in/~tmaiti/ |
| 4 | Sathesh Mariappan | LTU | Aerospace Engineering |
Email: sathesh@iitk.ac.in Phone: +91-5122596331 URL: https://sites.google.com/view/sathesh-mariappan/ |
| 5 | Shubham Sahay | IIT K | Electrical Engineering |
Email: ssahay@iitk.ac.in Phone: +915122592148 URL: https://home.iitk.ac.in/~ssahay/ |
| 6 | Raja Angamuthu | LTU | Chemistry and SEE |
Email: raja@iitk.ac.in Phone: +918400666650 URL: http://lisbic.com/ |
| 7 | Adam Mechler | IIT K | Biochemistry and Chemistry |
Email: a.mechler@latrobe.edu.au Phone: +61-394792524 URL: https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/amechlers |
| 8 | Patrik Sen | IIT K | Chemistry |
Email: psen@iitk.ac.in Phone: +91-9453105194 URL:http://home.iitk.ac.in/~psen/index.htm |
| 9 | Krishanu Biswas | IIT K | Material Science & Engineering |
Email: kbiswas@iitk.ac.in Phone: +919453816499 URL:https://home.iitk.ac.in/~kbiswas/ |
| 10 | Vaibhav Arghode | IIT K | SEE |
Email: varghode@iitk.acin Phone: 05122596294 URL: |
| 11 | Basker Sundararaju | LTU | Chemistry |
Email: basker@iitk.ac.in Phone: +91-9695926333 URL: http://home.iitk.ac.in/~basker/Publications.html |
| 12 | Prakash Mondal | IIT Kanpur | Chemistry |
Email: pcmondal@iitk.ac.in Phone: +91-8697389517 URL: https://mondalpc.wixsite.com/mondalresearchgroup |
| 13 | Abhilash Patel | IIT K | Electrical Engineering |
Email: apatel@iitk.ac.in Phone: +915126792322 URL: https://home.iitk.ac.in/~apatel/ |
| 14 | Partha Narayan Mishra | IIT K | Civil Engineering |
Email: pnmishra@iitk.ac.in Phone: +91-9124031071 URL: [1] https://iitk.ac.in/new/partha-narayan-mishra [2] https://home.iitk.ac.in/~pnmishra/ [3] https://civil.uq.edu.au/profile/800/partha-narayan-mishra |
| 15 | Sudarshan Narayanan | IIT K | SEE Department |
Email: sudarshan@iitk.ac.in Phone: +91-9042584249 URL: https://home.iitk.ac.in/~sudarshan/ |
| 16 | Madhav Ranganathan | IIT K | Chemistry |
Email: madhav@gmail.com Phone: +91-9415086325 URL: https://home.iitk.ac.in/~madhavr |
| 17 | Debabrata Goswami | IIT K | Chemistry |
Email: dgoswami@iitk.ac.in Phone: +917267001307 URL: N/A |
| 18 | Pratik Sen (2nd Proposal) | IITK | Chemistry |
Email: psen@iitk.ac.in Phone: +91-9453105194 URL: http://home.iitk.ac.in/~psen/ |
| 19 | Gurunath Ramanathan | IIT K | Chemistry |
Email: gurunath@iitk.ac.in Phone: +91-9450939002 URL: https://home.iitk.ac.in/~gurunath/ |
| 20 | Gopalkumar Thiruvancheril | IIT K | Chemistry |
Email: gopan@iitk.ac.in Phone: +91-8400511303 URL: https://home.iitk.ac.in/~gopan/ |
| 21 | ParthaNarayan Mishra (2nd) | IIT K | Civil Engineering |
Email: pnmishra@iitk.ac.in Phone: +91-9124031071 URL: https://home.iitk.ac.in/~pnmishra/ |
| 22 | Jason Dutton | LTU | SABE |
Email: j.dutton@latrobe.edu.au Phone: +61-0394793212 URL: https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/jdutton |
| 23 | Vaibhav Arghode(2) | IIT K | SEE |
Email: varghode@iitk.acin Phone: 05122596294 URL: https://sites.google.com/view/varghode |
| Sr. No. | Name (click on name to see Research Area) |
Institute | Department | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Subhajit Roy | IIT K | Computer Science & Engineering |
Email: subhajit@iitk.ac.in Phone: +91-512-2597585 |